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Owning a home means giving constant attention to the building products that go into protecting the structure of your house. While we’d like to believe items like our roof, siding and windows will last forever, that’s not the case. Click here to read more tips on evaluating your home’s exterior.
Updating your home to reflect your personality and current design obsessions gives most of us glamour-visions of our kitchen, bathroom, media room… But when it comes to the exterior of our homes, it can seem a little daunting. It’s just not as easy to update the materials and colors on the outside of our home [...]
We always say, if you are looking to replace any major product for your home, request ENERGY STAR qualified products. A product that meets ENERGY STAR requirements for a specific geographic area is constructed to help make a home as energy efficient as possible. Using several ENERGY STAR qualified products together can really help ease [...]
Over the years I’ve spoken to hundreds of homeowners about why they find selecting colors for their home so challenging and it always seems to come down to just a handful of reasons. Of these, one is by far the reason I hear most often. The #1 challenge is… “There are too many colors and [...]
People often lament that choosing exterior colors is so much harder than picking colors for an interior when just the opposite is true. When choosing interior colors there are so many factors to consider. When it comes to exterior colors the process is much simpler because your home will tell you which colors will look [...]
When selecting a color or polymer roofing profile for your home, you will want to make sure it matches the style of the home. It is important to remember that all of your colors and materials should support your home’s style and architecture, not vice versa. In order to do this you don’t have to [...]
What is a fixed feature? When I refer to a fixed feature, I am talking about any element on the exterior of the home that is not likely to change or at least not anytime soon. These are what most homeowners consider the permanent parts of their home and include the foundation, stone, brick, partial [...]
I have a whole “thing” I get into below about DaVinci‘s new Bellaforte Shake roofing tiles, but after getting an early look at them, I’m wasting time not starting at: BAM! DaVinci didn’t just do a great job on these shake-style tiles, they did a GREAT job on these and here’s why I think [...]
There’s more to the Before and After-Shock story—everything from customer service to insulation details, that I think are worth going into for old house owners and contractors. So here’s a recap of the story and some new thoughts. Recap. After installing a new roof on an old house the homeowner called me. After mondo-moist [...]
Not that every month here at MyFixitUpLife isn’t national home improvement month, but for the record National Home Improvement Month is May. And while I’ve roofed in February (and July) and had windows out of the house in winter (and doors in summer), May is a good time to take stock—and take action—on lots of [...]
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